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Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows you to run Apache Spark on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). If you run open-source Apache Spark on Amazon EKS, you can now use Amazon EMR to automate provisioning and management, and run Apache Spark up to three times faster. […]

Customers today want to focus more on their core business model and less on the underlying infrastructure and operational burden. As customers migrate to the AWS Cloud, they’re realizing the benefits of being able to innovate faster on their own applications by relying on AWS to handle big data platforms, operations, and automation. Many of […]

Increasingly, a business’s success depends on its agility in transforming data into actionable insights, which requires efficient and automated data processes. In the previous post – Build a SQL-based ETL pipeline with Apache Spark on Amazon EKS, we described a common productivity issue in a modern data architecture. To address the challenge, we demonstrated how to utilize a declarative approach as the key enabler to improve efficiency, which resulted in a faster time to value for businesses. Generally speaking, managing applications declaratively in Kubernetes is a widely adopted best practice. You can use the same approach to build and deploy Spark applications with open-source or in-house build frameworks to achieve the same productivity goal.

Many customers are gathering large amount of data, generated from different sources such as IoT devices, clickstream events from websites, and more. To efficiently extract insights from the data, you have to perform various transformations and apply different business logic on your data. These processes require complex workflow management to schedule jobs and manage dependencies […]

At re:Invent 2020, we announced the general availability of Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS, a new deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows you to automate the provisioning and management of open-source big data frameworks on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With Amazon EMR on EKS, you can now run Spark applications alongside other […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. The Amazon Redshift Data API makes it easy for any application written in Python, Go, Java, Node.JS, PHP, Ruby, and C++ to interact with Amazon Redshift. Traditionally, these applications use JDBC connectors to connect, send a query to run, and retrieve results from the Amazon Redshift cluster. […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. July 2021: This post was reviewed and updated to include multi-statement and parameterization support. Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL […]